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California's Prop 40 billionaire wealth tax loses ground as vote nears

Six Nobel economists publish letter backing Prop 40

3 Sep 19 · 6d ago · 2 articles · 2 sources · development 3 of 7

Esther Duflo, Paul Krugman, Peter Diamond, Abhijit Banerjee, Daron Acemoglu and Joseph Stiglitz signed a letter, organized around Gabriel Zucman's work, endorsing the California billionaire tax.

Six Nobel economists publish letter backing Prop 40
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“Really great to see this: six Nobel Prize-winning economists (Duflo, Krugman, Diamond, Banerjee, Acemoglu and Stiglitz) just came out in favor of the California billionaire tax.”

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Gabriel Zucman Economist, architect of the wealth-tax letterSergey BrinSergey Brin Google co-founderJoshua Rauh Stanford economist, Hoover Institution researcherSacramento Bee / McClatchy editorial board Newspaper editorial boardNobel laureate economists (Duflo, Krugman, Diamond, Banerjee, Acemoglu, Stiglitz) Signatories of a public letter

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